Tools for Comparative Genomics

 
 

How to Cite mVISTA

mVISTA was described in several publications. Please use references relevant to you work. Thank you.

General VISTA references

Frazer KA, Pachter L, Poliakov A, Rubin EM, Dubchak I. VISTA: computational tools for comparative genomics. Nucleic Acids Res. 2004 Jul 1;32(Web Server issue):W273-9

Mayor C., Brudno M., Schwartz J. R., Poliakov A., Rubin E. M., Frazer K. A., Pachter L. S. and Dubchak I. (2000) VISTA: Visualizing Global DNA Sequence Alignments of Arbitrary Length. Bioinformatics, 16:1046.

Alignment programs

AVID

Bray, N., Dubchak, I. and Pachter, L. (2003) AVID: A Global Alignment Program. Genome Research, 13:97.

LAGAN

Brudno, M., Do, C.B., Cooper, G.M., Kim, M.F., Davydov, E., Green, E.D., Sidow, A., and Batzoglou, S; NISC Comparative Sequencing Program. LAGAN and Multi-LAGAN: Efficient Tools for Large-Scale Multiple Alignment of Genomic DNA, 2003. Genome Research, 13(4): 721-731.

Shuffle-LAGAN

Brudno, M., Malde, S., Poliakov, A., Do, C.B., Couronne, O., Dubchak, I., and Batzoglou, S. Glocal Alignment: Finding Rearrangements During Alignment, 2003. Bioinformatics, 19S1: i54-i62.

rVISTA

Loots, G., Ovcharenko,I., Pachter,L., Dubchak,I., Rubin, E. rVISTA for comparative sequence-based discovery of functional transcription factor binding sites. (2002) Genome. Res. 12:832-839